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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  November of last year when I visited Boston for the first time that I realized how instrumental Charlie Brown was, not just for me but for ... began to appreciate Charlie Brown for the masterpiece that it was. A

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for ... agreement, or as an adjective, i.e. “so true of the professor for letting us ... [annotation note="Pass/No Record, an MIT policy where, for your first semester

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  . It doesn't mean you weren’t “good enough” for MIT. Like, for real, it’s not about that at all. A positive decision ... . Sometimes, students here live for weeks on a deadline-to-deadline schedule, so

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  -jokingly-triumphant way because I had been uninterested in the project for a while, but felt ... continue? to which I had settled on “probably not” for each. Brenda applauds ... , felt silly for a second, then stepped out to see where I was. There was a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  happy or not. I'm low-key grateful for being alive. I’m sorry that I’m not ... 'm fully prepared for the prospect of college. Sure, I'm familiar with the ... didn’t need to find a GPU to run it, because Google Colab makes it easy

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  watched Mamma Mia five times this summer. (Alan: For the record, it’s been seven times in this calendar year, and, also, spoilers for a future blog ... in the post to get derailed, CJ. The people have come here for fortune

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  meals. I studied for an upcoming Google interview. I don’t think it ... forever as usual and was due on Thursday--and studying for the only 6 ... a boarding Catholic high school—for my fiction humanities class. I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  Immediately after the new site went live I left for group travel with ... report for Stu & crew; I figured I'd blog mine! Wednesday, July 13 ... at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  That title is just a lazy excuse for not being able to come up with a ... settling in for an hour long T ride DO NOT eat a McGriddle right before, the ... admitted student meetings, help dole out prefrosh for CPW, sign Valentines

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  ) Ring Premiere happened! For almost a year now, I’ve had the privilege of ... Rat for their class.  If you don’t already know, the Brass Rat is a ... started off rather unassuming. For the first few hours, my tasks consisted

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  of these tabs have been open for nearly a year, with no hope of ever ... /Harris Program for Private Study" - MIT provides a program for instrumentalists and vocalists to get private lessons for free! I've never even auditioned because

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  known for it's legendary professor Walter Lewin, 8.01 is the crux of ... game. For me, this is one of two classes that I take mainstream. What ... math for math's sake, I've found 18.02 has swayed me to the course 18

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  fall term"]FPOP[/annotation] for Course 10, ChemE, where they sent us ... fisherpeople in Maine to find responses that could be used to argue for a whale ... lives fighting for endangered species protection. I got the sense that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  hard copy of my schedule for the day. Here is a Google calendar ... classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your ... running around looking for the light switch, then ten minutes running around

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  , and one-time workshops, I threw on the wheel for an average of eight ... longer needed to consult Google Maps at every turn.  After each session ... , aiming for the center. [caption id="attachment_110860" align

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  whole entire school year), so i’m going to set a timer for 25 minutes ... write for the entire time. every so often i go through a phase where i ... range for maybe a minute max. theoretically, if i were typing at full

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  What a wonderful word: anew. Google defines it as “in a new or ... , so I'll save my leave for another blog and instead focus this one on my ... what they want to study or do after graduation, at least for right now

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  places and making it easy for neighbors to block construction projects ... streets safer for pedestrians and traffic while making survival easier for ... empathetic people i know, said well, that sounds bad for the people being

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full ... Ramen in Harvard Square? Sure! Lying in the grass on Killian Court for an ... , on the other hand, is much more rigid, depending on where you are. For

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  for an arts credit. Additionally, students concentrate on a specific ... ... Then with Peter Pan, the ideas of hooks for a hand and singing pirates ... ”. That’s another thing! For the sailors, this wasn’t “sea music,” it was

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024